Take a walk with us for Black Birders Week at Chollas Lake 🌿🕊️
Join WorldBeat Cultural Center, SoCal Bird Nerds, and San Diego Bird Alliance for a free guided community bird walk celebrating nature, connection, and belonging in the outdoors.
Whether you’re an experienced birder or just curious about the birds around you, everyone is welcome.
📍 Chollas Lake Park
🗓 Saturday, May 30
⏰ 9AM–11AM
🎟 Free Community Event
Meet by the park office near the fishing dock.
#blackbirdersweek #chollaslake #birdingcommunity #birdwatching #natureforall
Join us TODAY! Step into the garden for an afternoon of conversation, connection, music, and mycelial wisdom 🍄🟫✨
Fruiting Bodies brings together Ash Ritter + Mikaela de la Myco for a sensory and embodied exploration of sacred fungi, relationship, and collective healing in the beautiful WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden.
🌿 Friday, May 15
🕒 3PM–5:30PM
📍 WorldBeat Cultural Center
Sliding scale tickets available now.
Limited space.#today
Tomorrow in the WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden 🌿🍄
Join us for Fruiting Bodies: A Sentient and Sensory Cypher on Sacred Fungi with Ash Ritter & Mikaela de la Myco — an afternoon of conversation, traditional songs, sensory exploration, and community connection in nature.
Step into the garden and explore relationship, healing, embodiment, and interconnectedness through a shared community experience.
✨ Friday, May 15
✨ 3PM – 5:30PM
✨ WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden
✨ Balboa Park
Sliding scale tickets available now. Space is limited.
#sacredfungi #mycology #natureconnection #gardengathering
Something special is growing at WorldBeat 🌿
Fruiting Bodies: A Sentient and Sensory Cypher on Sacred Fungi is an immersive gathering rooted in community, conversation, storytelling, traditional songs, and embodied connection with the natural world.
Join Ash Ritter and Mikaela de la Myco for an afternoon exploring the deeper relationships between nature, healing, consciousness, and collective care.
Friday, May 15
3PM–5:30PM
WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden
Limited space available ✨ Tickets available through the link in bio. #ethnobotanyofmagic #peacegarden #communityhealing
Join us for Black Birders Week at Chollas Lake Park.
This year’s theme — Flyways & Freedom: Advocacy, Action, and the Future — celebrates Black birders, naturalists, scientists, and outdoor enthusiasts while imagining a world where everyone can safely connect with nature and move freely through outdoor spaces.
Together with SoCal Bird Nerds and San Diego Bird Alliance, we’ll explore local birds, native habitat, and the beauty of community connection through a free guided bird walk.
✨ Everyone is welcome
✨ No birding experience needed
✨ Family friendly & free
📍 Chollas Lake Park
📅 Saturday, May 30
⏰ 9AM–11AM
Hosted by WorldBeat Cultural Center, SoCal Bird Nerds & San Diego Bird Alliance.
#blackbirdersweek #natureforall #sandiegoevents #communityconnection
Messages From the Garden
Hidden throughout the WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden are gentle reminders to slow down, reconnect, and stay present.
This Friday, Fruiting Bodies gathers community beneath the trees for an afternoon exploring sacred fungi, embodiment, conversation, music, and relationship to the living world around us. 🍄
🌱 Friday, May 15
⏰ 3PM–5:30PM
📍 WorldBeat Cultural Center
🎟️ Tickets available now.
🍄 What wisdom grows underground?
This Friday, Fruiting Bodies invites guests into a sensory and thought-provoking exploration of sacred fungi, embodiment, ritual, relationship, and community.
Join Ash Ritter and Mama de la Myco in the WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden for an afternoon of conversation, music, connection, and mycelial insight beneath the trees.
🌿 Friday, May 15
⏰ 3PM–5:30PM
📍 WorldBeat Cultural Center — San Diego
🎟️ Tickets + info available now — scan the mushroom 🍄
🍄 FRIDAY FRUITING BODIES 🍄
Join Ash Ritter and Mikaela de la Myco for an immersive afternoon of conversation, teachings, traditional songs and sensory exploration centered around sacred fungi and our relationship to the mycelial world.
📍 WorldBeat Ethnobotany Peace Garden
🗓 Friday, May 15
⏰ 3PM–5:30PM
Sliding scale tickets available online or in person as space allows.
Come early and enjoy lunch from the WorldBeat Cafe before the gathering begins.
#WorldBeatCenter #SacredFungi #Mycology #Ethnobotany #Mycelium
The rhythm of the drums.
Movement under the trees.
Moments of joy, connection and mindfulness shared together at Rhythm of the Earth 🌍✨
Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate music, culture, community and healing through movement.
#RhythmOfTheEarth #WorldBeatCenter #MindfulMusic #AfricanDance
A beautiful moment of love and gratitude on stage as Lavva gave a special shout out to WorldBeat Cultural Center and Mama Makeda 💛🌍
For decades, Makeda Cheatom has created space for music, culture, healing and community in the heart of Balboa Park — and moments like this remind us how deeply that impact is felt.
More music. More connection. More community.
Only at WorldBeat Cultural Center #communityhealing #supportlocalarts
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Celebrate Mother’s Day with community, culture and local creativity 💐
Join us TODAY from 12PM–5PM at the Mother’s Day Community Market at WorldBeat Cultural Center.
Shop handmade gifts, skincare, jewelry, art, candles and more while supporting local vendors and small businesses. ✨
Bring your mom, your family or simply treat yourself to a beautiful afternoon in Balboa Park.
#CommunityMarket #mothersday #supportlocal #balboapark
